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ReviewAntiviral research2014

Treatment of norovirus infections: moving antivirals from the bench to the bedside.

Stuart S Kaufman, Kim Y Green, Brent E Korba

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Review in Antiviral research, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
49citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Stuart S KaufmanMedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute and Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, United States.
Kim Y GreenCaliciviruses Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States.
Brent E KorbaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, United States. Electronic address: korbabe@georgetown.edu.
Georgetown University · USNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · US

Funding

Noroviruses and Epidemic GastroenteritisZIAAI000897 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI GREEN, KIM Y. · 2009 to 2025
$29.6M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 AI999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Noroviruses (NV) are the most common cause of acute gastrointestinal illness in the United States and worldwide. The development of specific antiviral countermeasures has lagged behind that of other viral pathogens, primarily because norovirus disease has been perceived as brief and self-limiting and robust assays suitable for drug discovery have been lacking. The increasing recognition that NV illness can be life-threatening, especially in immunocompromised patients who often require prolonged hospitalization and intensive supportive care, has stimulated new research to develop an effective antiviral therapy. Here, we propose a path forward for evaluating drug therapy in norovirus-infected immunocompromised individuals, a population at high risk for serious and prolonged illness. The clinical and laboratory features of norovirus illness in immunocompromised patients are reviewed, and potential markers of drug efficacy are defined. We discuss the potential design of clinical trials in these patients and how an antiviral therapy that proves effective in immunocompromised patients might also be used in the setting of acute outbreaks, especially in confined settings such as nursing homes, to block the spread of infection and reduce the severity of illness. We conclude by reviewing the current status of approved and experimental compounds that might be evaluated in a hospital setting.

Indexed as

Clinical Trials as TopicImmunocompromised HostAntiviral AgentsBiomarkersCaliciviridae InfectionsDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalDrug MonitoringGlobal HealthHumansNorovirusUnited StatesAntiviral AgentsBiomarkersAntiviralDiarrheaDrug treatmentImmunocompromisedNorovirusTransplant

Identifiers

PMID24583027
PMCPMC4793406
OpenAlexW2074027593

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